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Gangsters/bootleggers posing behind their supply of alcohol in the age of prohibition

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Bootleggers and rum runners would smuggle alcohol in from Cuba, Canada and West Indies so they could sell them to speakeasy’s and once that alcohol was sold they’d get paid with that money to do it all over again

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A 20’s speakeasy, people here were able to drink without worry of cops showing up to stop them because they would be drinking themselves

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A speakeasy was the place to go if you wanted to drink and probably much more without word of mouth spreading or legal action being taken.
You devious dog 😏

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Rural towns people dumping barrels of alcohol in support of prohibition 

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The people who were hating on bootleggers and rum runners were mostly from rural south and west areas and native born Protestant.

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Cops paid off by Al Capone who was running alcohol at the time executed a group of bugs Morans men over a territory dispute dependent on alcohol sales.

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Even though everything intoxicating and alcohol related was banned it didn’t stop people from making it and selling it themselves.
Even the law wanted to drink so they let it go under the radar as long as they got some

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Liquor being poured down the sewer in the 1920s

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Prohibition was set in motion under the 18th amendment which prohibited the manufacturing and sale of any and all intoxicating liquors.
Prohibition was set into motion because it was thought to be a drug similar to others like cocaine which was used medically not too far in the past at the time